Representative Tom DeLay asked lobbyist Jack Abramoff to raise money for him through a private charity controlled by Mr. Abramoff, an unusual request which led the lobbyist to pursue at least $150,000 from his Indian tribe clients and their gambling operations, according to a newly disclosed e-mail from the lobbyist's files.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110405D.shtml

A Louisiana congressman says e-mails written by the government's emergency response chief, Michael Brown, while Hurricane Katrina raged, show a lack of concern for the unfolding tragedy and a failure in leadership.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110405B.shtml

The House Republican leadership has delayed a vote on a proposed ban against cruel and degrading treatment of prisoners in American custody, and Democrats say the move is an effort to spare Vice President Dick Cheney an embarrassing defeat.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110405A.shtml

U.S. Representative Tom DeLay asked Jack Abramoff to raise money for him through an Abramoff foundation, the latest evidence of the ties between DeLay and the indicted lobbyist, e-mails released by a Senate committee show.

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From Information Clearing House

Tom DeLay (R-TX) "filed a report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives indicating he received free travel valued at $13,998.55 from Fox News Sunday for 'officially connected travel' on October 1-2, 2005.

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Protests began in Argentina three days before Bush’s arrival and a massive security clampdown is in place for the talks. More than 7,500 police officers erected a security ring around summit hotels and patrolled the streets and beaches. Coast guard boats watched the shoreline and air space was restricted. Most schools canceled classes.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/04/1532200


From Information Clearing House

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Bush's chief antagonist in Latin America, told reporters the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Area of the Americas is "dead.'' Chavez said he came "to bury'' the trade pact.

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From Information Clearing House

Venezuela possesses everything that makes it "strategically" important: it has oil; it is leftist; it is critical of the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10881.htm

Pressure was growing on the US and its new allies in eastern Europe last night amid allegations that the CIA has been interrogating al-Qaida suspects at former Soviet camps in Poland and Romania.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1627414,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Varieties of Imperial Aggression: Recently, two foreign courts issued warrants for the arrest of US government personnel protected, in common with terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles, by the US authorities.

Brian Bogart: History of the U.S. War Machine:

From NSC 68 to 2005: NSC68 was not a document specifically written to take or keep power from America's common people; the people have been isolated from power throughout our history. But NSC68 was the blueprint for shifting from social concerns to military-industrial profit, further elevating corporations to -- and further distancing the people from -- power.

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